The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Define: …give [him] and inch and he’ll take an ell.

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…give [him] and inch and he’ll take an ell.

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Ell would translate to "he'll take more". An ell was an historic unit of measurement that was approximately the length of a forearm.

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